HARD LANDING INDICATOR FOR AN AIRCRAFT LANDING GEAR

摘要

A hard landing indicator mountable to a landing gear of an aircraft isprovided. Thelanding gear has components displaceable toward each other upon the aircraftexperiencing a landing. The hard landing indicator includes a first portionsecurable toone of these components and a second portion that projects outwardly from thefirstportion and oriented toward another component of the landing gear to bepositionedwithin a path of displacement of the second component toward the firstcomponent. Thesecond portion is impacted by this component upon this component beingdisplacedduring a hard landing of the aircraft. The impact leaves a visual mark on thesecondportion of the hard landing indicator to indicate that a hard landing hasoccurred. Alanding gear equipped with and a method of installing such indicator are alsoprovided.